Reichskommissariat

A General District ( also known as the General Commission ) presented the average instance of the German civil administration in the Reich Commissariat Ostland and Reich Commissariat Ukraine during the Second World War dar.

History

The general areas can be compared with the Prussian provinces, but had a larger area and a greater extent of population. Were led to general wards of General Commissioners who were equal approximately to the tops President or Gauleiter in the Reich. You were under the administrative area commissioners. At the time of the greatest expansion of the German sphere of influence existed ten general areas. In the realm Ostland the General counties of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ruthenia and in the Reich Commissariat Ukraine, the General districts Dnepropetrovsk, Kiev, Nikolayev, Zhitomir, Crimea ( sub-district Taurien ) and Volyn - Podolia.

The General Commissioners possessed in their field over certain legislative powers, initiated but " the administration according to the general directions of the Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories and the orders of the Reich Commissioner ". In reality, they too had considerable latitude in dealing with their affairs. Each general district was composed of several areas that were managed by area commissioners. These formed the next lower German administrative authority, below which only had the county farmers available power. Larger cities within a region were under their own commissioners, who were independent of the area commissioners.

General Commissioners

Reich Commissariat Ostland

  • Wilhelm Kube, General Commissar in Minsk (up to 1943)
  • Curt of God Mountain, Commissioner General in Minsk (since 1943)
  • Karl Sigismund Litzmann, Commissioner General in Tallinn
  • Otto -Heinrich Drechsler, Commissioner General of Latvia in Riga (1941-1944)
  • Theodor Adrian von Renteln, Commissioner General in Kaunas

Reich Commissariat Ukraine

  • Alfred Eduard Frauenfeld, Commissioner General for the general district of Crimea ( sub-district Taurien )
  • Kurt Klemm, Commissioner-General of the General District Zhitomir
  • Helmut Quitzrau, Commissioner-General of the General District Kiev ( September 1941 - February 1942 )
  • Waldemar Magunia, Commissioner-General of the General District Kiev (since February 14, 1942 )
  • Ewald Oppermann, General Commissioner for the General District Nikolayev
  • Heinrich Schoene, Commissioner-General of the General District Volyn - Podolia
  • Nicholas Selzner, Commissioner-General of the General District Dnepropetrovsk

Footnotes

  • German occupation of the Ukraine 1941-1944
  • German occupation of Estonia 1941-1944
  • German occupation of Latvia 1941-1945
  • German occupation of Lithuania 1941-1945
  • German occupation of Belarus 1941-1944
  • Policy (World War II )
Reichskommissariat Ukraine Mykolaiv Taurica Curt von Gottberg Otto-Heinrich Drechsler Alfred Frauenfeld
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